CTC Global Updates
Raise the Performance Bar with CTC Global’s Extensively Proven ACCC Conductors
Is it the performance of your conductor that is keeping you worried? Are looking for some better solutions to raise the performance bar? If yes, then ACCC Conductor is for you. CTC Global is happy to announce that ACCC Conductor has been successfully deployed in over...
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When D’s don’t get Degrees
Every two to four years, the American Society of Civil Engineers Committee on America’s Infrastructure submits a report on the state of America’s Infrastructure. The study assesses all current data and reports, consults with technical and industry experts, and assigns...
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ACCC Conductor Can Reduce Line Losses and Why Everyone Should Care
According to the US Energy Information Administration, the world consumes over 20 Trillion kWh of electricity every year. Approximately 7% of all electricity generated is lost in the wires used to deliver power (primarily due to conductor resistance), which results...
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The California Natural Resources Agency Completes the Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative (RETI 2.0) Plenary Report
In collaboration with the California Energy Commission, California Public Utilities Commission, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, California Independent System Operator, Aspen Environmental Group and other stakeholders, the California Natural Resources Agency Completed...
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How to Improve the Economic Viability of Renewable Resources
Leveraging modern conductors such as ACCC can improve the economic viability of renewable resources projects and enable the power grid to handle added electrical current. Renewable energy resources are often located miles away from local demand centers. Wind farms,...
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How to Assess the Benefits of Transmission Investments and ACCC Conductor
As our electric infrastructure becomes increasingly complex and our economic challenges progressively demanding, accurately assessing the benefits of transmission investment is becoming extremely important. In the past, most transmission projects were developed by...
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How CTC Global’s ACCC Conductor can Reduce Project Costs
Our nation's power grid is a complex array of wires, switches, generators, towers, poles, transformers and cable. While our mission has always been to deliver electricity to the consumer at the lowest possible cost, selecting the cheapest product isn't necessarily the...
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NARUC Passes Resolution Supporting Advanced Electric Transmission Technology
The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) passed an important amendment just under a year ago that underscores the importance of using high performance and energy efficient conductors such as ACCC. NARUC Resolution EL-1 reads as follows:...
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La estrategia Panameña: Construyendo la red más costo-efectiva y eficiente a nivel mundial …y por qué es importante
Antecedente: Panamá representa una de las economías de más rápido crecimiento en América Latina y la demanda de electricidad sigue creciendo anualmente de un seis a un ocho por ciento, superando el aumento de suministro de energía. A finales del 2015, la capacidad de...
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CTC Global Participates at the 19th Annual Congressional Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency EXPO + Policy Forum
On July 12th the 19th Annual Congressional Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency EXPO and Policy Forum brought together a number of businesses, trade associations and government agencies to discuss renewable energy and the importance of efficiency - not only with...
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CTC Global ACCC Conductor Helping Prevent Electric Blackouts
Over the past few decades, changes in weather patterns due to climate change or global warming have led to more extreme, frequent and costly weather events that have included intense rains, ice storms, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, heat waves, droughts and wildfires....
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CTC Global’s ACCC Conductor Reduces Up-Front Capital Costs
Overview: In spite of the fact that High Capacity ACCC® Conductor is approximately twice the price of conventional AAAC or ACSR conductor, ACCC conductor reduces up-front capital costs and overall project costs on new transmission lines and reconductor projects. This...
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CTC Global Software Helps Utilities Improve the Efficiency, Capacity and Reliability of the Grid
Challenged by an increase in demand for affordable electricity, many system planners and transmission engineers are being asked to find economical ways to reduce grid congestion and improve grid reliability. In many cases, grid congestion costs the utilities and the...
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Shedding Light on the Importance of Transmission Line Capacity, Efficiency and Reliability
Following the Western Energy Crisis of 2000 and the Major East Coast Blackout of 2003, a group of engineers in California got together to design a new type of bare overhead conductor that could carry twice the current of a conventional conductor without exhibiting...
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Green Ovations – There’s some Super-Hero in all of us
There’s a fairly good chance you’re old enough (but not too old) to remember the phrase “Holy Cow, Batman!” The reason I bring this up is because the world of energy in whatever city, Gotham or otherwise, you happen to live in is more exciting, daunting, and...
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Why upgrading power lines with CTC Global’s ACCC is a cheaper way to reduce CO2 emissions than buying electric cars
Replacing old power lines with CTC Global's ACCC conductor less costly CO2 reduction compared to buying electric cars. If you still don’t believe in climate change, turn on your TV and listen to all the discussion about heat waves in the northeast, severe fires in the...
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How CTC Global’s ACCC Conductor is Reducing CO2 Emissions
In the electric power transmission business, most of us associate “grid efficiency” with improvements in generation equipment, transformers and demand side appliances. While new more efficient components in many cases are more expensive than the less efficient units...
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CTC ACCC protects the grid from outages due to extreme weather events
Over the past few decades, changes in weather patterns due to climate change or global warming have led to more extreme, frequent, and costly weather events that have included intense rains, ice storms, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, heat waves, droughts, and...
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The Importance of Transmission Line Efficiency, Capacity and Reliability
This article discusses the importance of transmission line efficiency and explains how replacing conventional ACSR conductor with CTC Global's ACCC conductor is less expensive than switching incandescent light bulbs to modern LED light bulbs. Following the Western...
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How CTC Global’s ACCC conductor is enabling the integration of more renewable energy
Following the Western Energy Crisis of 2000 and the Major East Coast Blackout of 2003 - that was attributed to some degree to excessive conductor sag - CTC Global, based in Irvine, California developed and commercialized a high-capacity, low-sag overhead conductor...
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How CTC Global is Building an Efficient Power Grid for a Low Carbon Energy Future
As the world’s population and demand for affordable, reliable and clean energy continues to grow, the opportunity and importance of developing transformational financing of a low carbon energy future has become quite clear to CTC Global. On a more granular level,...
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Why Electric Utilities should use ACCC conductor
Regulators, grid operators, generation companies and transcos can work together to leverage CTC Global ACCC Conductor technology technology to increase grid efficiency, capacity and reliability – in parallel with reducing emissions associated with climate change. In...
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The Economic and Environmental Impact of Power Lines
Access to affordable, reliable, and “clean” energy is essential for the future health of our planet, our global economy, and wellbeing in general. Without it, water cannot be pumped to support growing populations, products cannot be economically manufactured to maintain viable economies, and poverty cannot be mitigated in underdeveloped countries.
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How Panama is Building the World’s Most Efficient Power Grid… and why it matters
Background: Panama represents one of the fastest growing economies in Latin America and demand for electricity continues to grow at six to eight percent per year, outpacing the growth of energy supply. At the end of 2015, generation capacity in Panama was 3,235...
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CTC Global at Cigre conference and exhibition in Paris
Several members of CTC Global's management team, business development personnel and technical staff attended this year's Cigre conference in Paris. In addition to participating in technical meetings, CTC Global also met with existing customers, future customers,...
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19th Annual Congressional Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency EXPO and Policy Forum
On July 12th the 19th Annual Congressional Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency EXPO Policy Forum brought together a number of businesses, trade associations and government agencies to discuss renewable energy and the importance of efficiency - not only with demand...
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New ACCC Transmission Line Construction Begins in Malaysia
With the help of EPC firm Trenergy Infrastructure, CTC Global ACCC conductor stringing began on a new transmission line in Johor - Baharu, Malaysia. The new line is being built to enable connection with a new power plant developed by Petronas. The project is a joint...
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ACCC conductor takes a direct hit from an EF5 tornado
As many of us recently learned, a devastating tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, caused an estimated $2 billion in damage. Many lives were lost and people injured. While our hearts go out to those impacted, we commend OG&E and their contractors for working around the...
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